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I’ll be leaving dxw this month, off to pastures new and to try new things. I thought I’d just write a quick post about my time at dxw and something about the future. I’ve had a great time working with the very talented bunch of people at dxw. We’ve managed to do some great things…

At a client meeting for a project recently, we were planning a sprint and I was asked “But when do you do the design?” Since joining dxw from the Government Digital Service, I’ve found myself working with organisations that don’t follow the same agile, iterative product development approach that both these organisations take. It seems…

On 11th September I went to the Local Govcamp Makers Day in Leeds, a group of local government digital types had an opportunity to get creative about local government and democracy. To make things that visualise how new and effective solutions might help fix problems. We were challenged to think of ways to engage citizens in their local…

It’s one of these things where you hear it once, then see it everywhere – in tweets, blog posts or on podcasts: I’m talking about web performance. Web performance means how fast a webpage is downloaded and displayed to the user. There’s a good reason that this is one of the hot topics in web…

On Tuesday, I went to a supplier engagement session run by the Digital Marketplace team. It was great. The government CTO, Liam Maxwell, kicked the session off. Several of the team behind the Digital marketplace, G-Cloud and the Digital Services framework then explained what was going on, and described their thinking. I tweeted most of…

Contrary to the post I read in the SME Insider this morning about work retreats, the dxw retreat over the weekend was all of the fun (and we didn’t jump out of any planes). I guess I’ve been lucky in my working career so far, when I’ve been asked away with work it’s been for…